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Podcast: The Grapevine
Episode: Investing in social housing is the first step, what else can be done to help resolve Victoria's Homelessness crisis?
Description: On this episode of The Grapevine, how effective will Victoria’s $5.3 billion social housing project be for those threatened with, or experiencing homelessness?Dr Sarah Taylor & co-author Juliet Watson discuss the challenges of investing meaningfully, after their new report for RMIT’s Unison Housing Research Lab found social housing tenants are more likely to have experienced chronic, often lifelong, disadvantage than other groups.Then, author, historian, speechwriter, social critic, and humorist, Don Watson gets on the line to discuss the release of his new book ‘Watsonia: A Writing Life’, a definitive anthology of Watson’s greatest works...